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October 24, 2007: Censoring Gravitas, Blowing Out Doors and Tearing Down Walls

October 24, 2007: Censoring Gravitas, Blowing Out Doors and Tearing Down Walls

This reporter has now become a proud member of the banned voices who have dared speak out for equal human rights for Palestinians and the truth about the injustices committed by the state of Israel on the supposedly progressive free speech sites known as the Daily Kos and the Democratic Underground.

Although locked out of my own blog on the DK, the attacks and conversation about me continued:

"Her advertising and crossposting on a hate site were simply irrelevant and could not possibly have factored into her departure in any way. If you think otherwise, you're a victim of Zionist mind control, just like the DKos editors. And it wasn't even really a decision the DKos editors agreed with; they were simply cowed into banning Eileen by a well-organized campaign of email harrassment that was most likely promulgated through GIYUS [ED Note: GIYUS/ Give Israel Your United Support, is a project of the World Union of Jewish Students] and I'll bet there were thousands of emails from Tel-Aviv pretending to be from Poughkeepsie…No other possible explanation could possibly be possible, especially the plain and simply one given. She is clearly another victim of the Infantophagy Lobby…Remember when someone was hopping up and down about how this controversy is really all a put-on by Thuh Zionist Thought Police, and that we secretly didn't give a damn about the hate site, just about trying to silence Eileen's daring an controversial… by zemblan on Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 11:26:13 AM PDT [IBID]

What piqued my interest immediately is that I have a link attached to my website that informs me, where my readers are coming from.

The 24 hours from June 3rd at 4 AM until June 4th, proved that visits from Israel increased so greatly, that Israel went from 17th place into 5th place out of the total countries who had visited my site during that time period.This week I posted two previously published articles on the Democratic Underground's Israel Palestine forum and both were locked down within the first 24 hours with this inane message from Lithos, DU Moderator, "Personal blogs without distinct gravitas concerning I/P are not considered acceptable sources."

I responded with an email ALERT to Lithos, but never received a reply.

When I attempted to post a new article on October 23, 2007, I received the message:

Your posting privileges have been revoked… We read all correspondence sent to us. If you do not get a response to your appeal, it is because your request was denied.

What follows is my first email to Lithos on October 22:

"GRAVITAS" you say,

My article "FREE RADICALS" most certainly has dignity and propriety and is in good taste: for it contains THE TRUTH.

This article has been published by legit web sites and cross posted all over the web!

Voices - Free RadicalsFree Radicals. eileen fleming. It was on the second Saturday in September, 2007, while in Arlington, Virginia, at George Mason University attending the 6th ...

Dissident Voice : Free RadicalsFree Radicals. by Eileen Fleming / October 4th, 2007. It was on the second Saturday in September, 2007, while in Arlington, Virginia, at George Mason ...Annie's letters: Free Radicals by Eileen FlemingFree Radicals · Eileen Fleming. October 06, 2007 06:18 PM. Keren and I have both been questioned regarding our eye witness reports from occupied territory. ...

Arabisto.comFree Radicals. October 06, 2007 06:18 PM ... Eileen Fleming. I haven't an ounce of Arab blood within me -- but I have been to Israel/Palestine five times ...Free Radicals | CrossLeftHowever, for many years the existence of free radicals was dismissed as ..... Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor of http://www.wearewideawake.org/ ...

No response ever came and as I already know the truth, so should you dear American reader:

"Israel 's Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.

"In the past week [July 28, 2006] nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special "megaphone" software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article693911.ece

The attack on free speech, deep thought, eye witness accounts from occupied Palestinian territory and "intellectual freedom in the US that has grown more aggressive in recent months…Over the past few years, Israel's US defenders have stepped up their campaign by establishing a network of institutions (such as Campus Watch, Stand With Us, the David Project, the Israel on Campus Coalition, and the disingenuously named Scholars for Peace in the Middle East) dedicated to the task of monitoring our campuses and bringing pressure to bear on those critical of Israeli policies. By orchestrating letter-writing and petitioning campaigns, falsely raising fears of anti-Semitism, mobilizing often grossly distorted media coverage and recruiting local and national politicians to their cause, they have severely disrupted academic processes, the free function of which once made American universities the envy of the world.

"When professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer drafted an essay critical of the effect of Israel's lobbying organizations on US foreign policy, they had to publish it in the London Review of Books because their original American publisher declined to take it on. With the original article expanded into a book that has now been released, their invitation to speak at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs was retracted because of outside pressure…When President Carter published Palestine: Peace not Apartheid last year, he was attacked for having dared to use the word "apartheid" to describe Israel's manifestly discriminatory policies in the West Bank."http://www.electronicintifada.net/v2/article9051.shtml

A few weeks ago, the University of St. Thomas' president Father Dennis Dease, after pressure from a few local Jewish leaders, canceled a scheduled presentation by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. After over 2,700 emails were sent to the University by concerned citizens defending freedom of speech, Father Dease issued the following statement on October 10, 2007:

"One of the strengths of a university is the opportunity that it provides to speak freely and to be open to other points of view on a wide variety of issues. And, I might add, to change our minds. Therefore, I feel both humbled and proud to extend an invitation to Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak at the University of St. Thomas. I have wrestled with what is the right thing to do in this situation, and I have concluded that I made the wrong decision earlier this year not to invite the archbishop. Although well-intentioned, I did not have all of the facts and points of view, but now I do."

You should have the facts too:Archbishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his courageous and fearless opposition against the South African apartheid system.On October 26 – 27, 2007 at the Old South Church in Boston, Mass., Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rev. Naim Ateek, Anat Biletzki, Diana Buttu, Noam Chomsky, John Dugard, Farid Esack, Noura Erekat, Jeff Halper, Donald Wagner, David Wildman, Phyllis Bennis, Joan M. Martin, Nancy Murray, Bishop Thomas Shaw and concerned truth seeking Americans will be blowing off the doors in Boston by addressing "The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel: Issues of Justice and Equality."

At 3 PM , on October 27, 2007, the Boston Chapter of Jewish Voices for Peace, The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and justice and peace activists from Israel , Palestine, South Africa, and the U.S. will be Tearing Down the Walls-Building Bridges at a Peace Rally in Copley Square.

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